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Madama Butterfly / Giacomo Puccini ; vocal score.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library M1503.P977 M282 2002
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.
- Series:
- Dover vocal scores
- Standardized Title:
- Madama Butterfly. Vocal score. English & Italian
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Vocal scores with piano.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Vocal scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 vocal score (279 pages) ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Italian and English words.
- Summary:
- Based on a play by David Belasco, Madama Butterfly concerns the disastrous results of a young American naval officer's marriage to a pretty geisha girl. Scorned by the La Scala audience at its 1904 premiere, the opera was revised by Puccini and afterwards met with a brilliant success that continues to this day. The heartrending story, combined with The composer's inspired use of color effects to evoke the exotic Japanese setting, make it one of the world's most popular operas. This authoritative vocal score -- including all the vocal parts, a piano reduction of the full score, and the complete libretto in Italian and English -- offers musicians an inexpensive alternative to other editions costing significantly more. Indispensable for rehearsal pianists and singers, this volume will delight music students, musicologists, and opera lovers as well.
- Notes:
- Opera in 2 acts.
- Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa based on the play by David Belasco and the story by John Luther Long. English trans. by R. H. Elkin; vocal score by Carlo Carignani.
- Reprint. Originally published: Milan : G. Ricordi, 1906.
- ISBN:
- 0486422038
- OCLC:
- 50624253
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